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Dear friend,This sounds like a very important clearing for you to be making right now.As SARK says, your dreams never die. Perhaps by letting go, you are enabling them to come back to you in another form?Kat xxPS Thank you so much for your gorgeous email, which really warmed my heart. Am a bit behind on replying, forgive me.

Oh what lovely things and thougths and memories. I have a suitcase of things like this, I can't quite let them go just yet, but maybe I will have another look and see. LOVE those colours for the playroom, so exquisite! Pepper x

Hopes and dreams change as we do. Letting go allows new ones to emerge, and sometimes they're better! Letting go also forces us to be totally honest with what we truly want. Just because we hung on to it for so long doesn't make it right, right??

When I was 12 my best friend and I decided we'd each get a Corvette. Years later we still said we wanted one, only I really didn't, but I didn't want to disappoint my friend. I held on to this dream for so long I felt bad that I didn't want to fulfill it anymore.

So a few years ago I went down to the car lot by myself, approached about 5 car sales men with nothing to do, and said I wanted to test drive a Corvette. They all looked at me like I was crazy since I wasn't with a man to "help" me. I finally convinced one of them to let me drive the yellow Corvette on the lot. Wow! Whata' thrill to be behind the wheel of my dream car!!

I enjoyed every minute of it. I drove back to the lot, said thank you and left (of course, he thought I'd bring my husband back to okay the purchase). When I drove away in my little car I felt such relief knowing I didn't want that Corvette. I finally let go of a dream that held me captive for years.

Maybe not an interesting story, but to me it was a life changing moment. From then on I looked at my childhood dreams, blessed them and then released them, and allowed new ones without strings to enter my life.

I'm so happy to hear you are doing the same! But if you do decide to visit Cayucous after all you have to let me know as I'm less than 20 minutes away!!

WOW! I just love this post Monica! It is so true that at times in our life we need to re-evaluate, to review our goals and our dreams. Thank-you for this telling post that reminds us that we need to take stock once in a while...We need to revisit and make sure we are still investing in the right things, for the right reasons.. Some of our dreams do evolve with time, but those that stay the same...that is your compass...the direction you absolutely need to follow. Thank-you for sharing this. And thank-you for the lovely comment on my blog. I am so grateful. xox